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VIS I TUTAH.C O M 2 Grand Circle Association 2020 The Grand Circle® Travel Planner is the official guide of the Grand Circle® Association. The Association is a non-profit member organization dedicated to the promotion of visitation and travel within Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

Grand Circle® Association Board of Directors

Ed Spear, President Ely, NV

Jeff Lyman, Vice President Sky Ute Casino and Resort Ignacio, CO

Arden Redshirt, Treasurer Antelope Canyon Tours Page, AZ

Sue Finley, Director Red Feather Lodge , AZ

Michelle Kien, Director Forever Resorts Scottsdale, AZ

Debbie Kovalik, Director Grand Junction, CO

Jennifer Lazarz, Director Visit Gallup Gallup, NM

Robin Marquis, Director Aramark Corporation Page, AZ

Wilann Thomas, Director of Aztec Aztec, NM

To learn more about the Grand Circle® Association or to join, please contact:

Laurie Frantz, Executive Director [email protected] 505-557-7839

Front cover photos, from top clockwise: Main Photo: Chimney Rock, San Juan Mountains, CO; Danita Dellmont, Alamy Stock. Insets (from top): Wheeler Perak, Great Basin National Park, NV; Dennis Frates, Alamy Stock. North Window, , UT; Anthony Hefflin, SS; , AZ/UT, Johnny Adolphson, SS; Taos , NM; Josemaria Toscano, SS. *SS = Shutterstock grandcircle.org 3 WELCOME to the GRAND CIRCLE

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Dear Fellow Explorers, On behalf of the many members of the Grand Circle Association, I invite you to explore the best of America’s Southwest — the Grand Circle. This is a diverse land of magnificent natural wonders, rich cultural traditions and colorful history. It is a joy to visit at any time of the year. From the depths of Arizona’s Grand Canyon to the lofty mountains and mesas of Western Colorado; from the dramatic pinnacles of New Mexico to Utah’s soaring stone arches, a varied terrain will surprise you at every turn with its diversity. Traveling here is an adventure you will find nowhere else.

The Grand Circle is covered with National Parks and Monuments, laced with National Scenic Byways and dotted with archaeological wonders. As you tour through this wonderland of scenic attractions, experience Native American culture, both ancient and modern, rejuvenate yourself in welcoming communities and get outdoors for some adventure and exercise. Please join us in discovering just a bit more of what makes the Southwestern USA so great! Whether visiting for the first time or returning, you will find that there is more to explore at every corner of the Grand Circle. Happy Travels,

Ed Spear, President

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he Colorado River has carved a score of canyons, but none so aweinspiring­ as Glen Canyon and, of course the most awesome T of all, the Grand Canyon. They are a study in contrasts: to early explorers of the Grand, its tumultuous waters “work on the nerves, there is no repose in it, nothing that is soft.” Glen Canyon, though, was “almost absolutely serene, an interlude for a pastoral flute.”

That is still true today, especially with most of Glen Canyon sleeping below the surface of Lake Powell. However, the upper sandstone walls of Glen Canyon are as seductive as ever — and they are more approachable. Now we can boat, float, ski, fish, sail, or kayak amongst sheer cliff walls and billowing, towering domes. As for the Grand Canyon, most of us simply stare with incomprehension. It’s too vast, too old, too grand to grasp But for those of us who do hike or ride or raft into its depths, the Grand Canyon truly can transform our lives.

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Grand Canyon National Horseshoe Bend Park — South Rim Grand Canyon National Park is an awesome example of Mother Nature’s finest engineering. Ten miles wide, a mile deep. A silvery ribbon of water still relentlessly continues to slice through billion year old rock. From the best vantage points on the rim, you see less than a quarter of the Canyon, yet even this inspires us to silence. Hike down Bright Angel or Kaibab or Hermit Trail, and you’ll begin to understand the enormity of these vertical walls. At 7,000 feet, the South Rim glistens with snowclad­ buttes in winter, shimmers with heat mirages in summer. On the Canyon floor, temperatures can easily reach over 100 degrees in July and August. Hiking, riding mules to , and flight-seeing all offer unforgettable moments in the Canyon. Be sure to visit the Canyon View Information Plaza located at Mather Point to find out about shuttle schedules, interpretive Rafting on the Colorado River programs, and hiking conditions. From the eastern entrance of the Park, a spectacular road winds along the rim, offering turnouts and scenic overlooks of the Canyon. The South Rim is open year-round. nps.gov/grca; for Park lodging and concessions, grandcanyonlodges.com, visitgrandcanyon.com

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NEARBY COMMUNITIES (South Rim) Tusayan is just a few miles south of the Canyon’s southern entrance, and has a wide variety of hotels and restaurants. The National Geographic IMAX theater offers stunning and fascinating perspectives of the Canyon on its giant screen. Grand Canyon flightseeing, by helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft, is available from Tusayan’s airport. At the Park’s east entrance, the town of Cameron has lodging, restaurant and a beautiful trading post. Williams has numerous hotels and restaurants, and is the origination point for the Grand Canyon Railway, a historic ride to the South Rim, complete with strolling musicians and a mock train robbery. GrandCanyonCVB.org, williamschamber.com

Flagstaff has a great historic district, many accommodations and restaurants, and several additional attractions, including Lowell Observatory and the Museum of Northern Arizona. Vestiges of Historic Route 66 are found in both Flagstaff and Williams. To the south, eclectic and bustling Sedona is set amid tall red rock buttes. flagstaffarizona.org

HISTORIC ROUTE 66 Stretching from New Mexico to Arizona, visitors find many reminders of the glory of the “Mother Road” across Northern Arizona. Winslow, Holbrook, Flagstaff, Williams, Peach Springs and Kingman all have vestiges of the motels, diners and gas stations that made Route 66 the epitome of highway travel. Even today, wanderers travel here from around the globe to experience the nostalgia of those days.

Walnut Canyon National Monument. South of Flagstaff, the monument offers a steep trail into the canyon to view the high limestone alcoves where the Sinagua built their homes from 1100 to 1250. nps.gov/waca

RED ROCK SCENIC BYWAY Red Rock Scenic Byway winds through Sedona’s Red Rock Country, often called a “museum without walls.” Travelers are amazed by the high desert’s power, diversity, and sense of intimacy with nature. Inhabited for thousands of years, the stunning red rocks are alive with a timeless spirit that captivates and inspires. 7.5 miles / 12.1 km I-17 to Sedona.

Sunset Crater and Wupatki Grand Canyon National Monuments. This National Park area is part of a 2,200 square mile volcanic field near Flagstaff with more — North Rim A different world greets than 400 cinder cones. visitors to the other rim of the is the youngest volcano; it exploded Canyon. Higher in elevation, in AD 1065 and blanketed the entire lower in visitation, the North region in thick, moisture preserving Rim offers splendid moments ash. Different prehistoric societies of solitude on the cool, green moved here to take advantage of the . But the vistas suddenly rich soil, so the area became across the Canyon and into its a trading crossroads. More than 800 depths still stun and inspire, and ruins – the homes and villages of the trails still beckon hikers down Sinagua and Ancestral – below the rim. Visitor facilities, have been found in this immediate including accommodations, area, and are now protected as are open from mid May to mid Wupatki National Monument. October. Once it snows, access nps.gov/sucr or nps.gov/wupa to the North Rim is closed for the winter. nps.gov/grca; for North Rim lodging and concessions. GrandCanyonForever.com

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North Rim Lodge, Grand Canyon grandcircle.org 11 KAIBAB PLATEAU Glen Canyon NRA NORTH RIM PARKWAY Travel through the Kaibab Plateau’s meadows and forests of dense ponderosa pine and mixed conifer to the brink of the spectacular north rim of the Grand Canyon, 1,000 feet higher than the south rim. Watch for the abundant wildlife and experience breathtaking views of the canyon. 42 mi. / 68 km Jacob’s Lake to North Rim.

from Wahweap Marina or Antelope Lodge & Marina and fulldays­ from Bullfrog Nearby Communities Point Marina to Rainbow Bridge. Rent and Halls Crossing Marinas) and via a (North Rim) a houseboat for a week to explore the strenuous trail from Navajo Mountain. The closest community to the North thousands of channels braced by high rock The towering Bridge is a sacred site to Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is walls and lined with soft sandy beaches. neighboring tribes, so visitors are asked Jacob Lake. Located at the junction of Hike from the lake into Glen Canyon’s to treat the Bridge with the respect they Highway 89 and the Kaibab North Rim magical backcountry, following undulating would use in a cathedral. For tours: Parkway. Centrally located to visit many rock for miles. Tumble down sand dunes nps.gov/rabr Parks, Kanab is the largest town north of and lose yourself in slot canyons. Simply… the Grand Canyon. It offers dozens of enjoy. nps.gov/glca; for Park lodging, boat Nearby Communities: activities — horseback and jeep tours, tours, or rentals, call 800-528-6154, Page, on the shores of Lake Powell, mountain biking, photography workshops, lakepowell.com or call 800-255-5561, was founded as the company town for flight-seeing, the world’s largest animal LakePowellHouseboating.com construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. sanctuary, and an old west town created Today, it has grown into a tourism and around Hollywood’s movie sets. Antelope Canyon. Slot canyons recreational center offering great golfing, kaneutah.com are magical crevasses in rock, split and sightseeing and lake and backcountry polished by water and time, a favorite access. It is a perfect base for exploring Pipe Spring National Monument. subject of photographers. Guided jeep all of the attractions the area has to offer Native Americans used this area for and photo tours are available from Page, with lots of options for lodging, meals at least a thousand years before the AZ. The most expensive photograph ever and entertainment. Visit Page Lake Powell Mormons arrived in the 1860s to sold was of Antelope Canyon. Phantom, can help with activity reservations. begin cattle ranching. Made a national by Peter Lik sold recently for $6.5 million. visitpagelakepowell.com monument in 1923, it offers excellent visitpagelakepowell.com. Enjoy a relaxing living history demonstrations, an old fort, alternative to hiking the canyon. Take a John Wesley Powell Museum. and interpretive trails that offer a glimpse leisurely 1 hour guided boat tour through A small museum featuring the famed of American Indian and pioneer life in the the towering cliffs and slot canyons. explorer of the Colorado and Green Old West. 15 miles SW of Fredonia, AZ. antelopepointlakepowell.com/boat-tours/ Rivers, canyon and river geology, and the nps.gov/pisp making of Lake Powell. Located in Page, Glen Canyon Dam. Construction AZ. powellmuseum.org Lake Powell/Glen began in 1960 and the gates closed in Canyon National 1963, backing up waters that now lap Navajo 1,900 miles of shoreline. Informative tours of the dam typically are offered daily and Monument “Glen Canyon is for pure delight.” So Three beautifully preserved cliff dwellings spoke explorer John Wesley Powell of this float trips are offered below the dam in serene Marble Canyon. nps.gov/glca (only one is visible by most visitors) are rare section of the Colorado River that protected here. Exhibits focus on Ancestral did not terrify nor torment his men. They Puebloan and Navajo culture, and uses for frolicked in its warm waters and gawked Marble Canyon. Icy waters gush into the Grand Canyon from below the Glen native plants. Between Page and Kayenta. at its sculptured side canyons, just as nps.gov/nava people do today. Lake Powell is, without Canyon Dam, creating a flat stretch of doubt, one of the most sublime places on emerald water perfect for mellow float earth. Blue waters lap at sculptured red trips and world class fly fishing. Call Petrified Forest sandstone — water meets desert, the best 928-645-2741 for rafting and guiding National Park of two worlds. companies. Multihued badlands of the Painted Desert, 225 million-year old fossils, and one Millions of visitors now splash and Rainbow Bridge National of the world’s largest and most colorful play here in every conceivable way — Monument. “Sheer cosmic poetry” concentrations of petrified wood make this houseboating, jetskiing, bass fishing, is how one writer describes the world’s a fun side trip. Visitors often drive one way skin diving, kayaking, parasailing, and largest natural bridge. Accessible by boat through the Park to connect between I-40 water skiing. Take a boat tour uplake (half- and full-day tours from Wahweap and Hwy 180. nps.gov/pefo

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Wilderness River Adventures, managed by Aramark, is an authorized concessioner of the , Grand Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

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Grand Canyon NP, AZ St. George, UT

n the Grand Circle, there is no reason to pick one season or one vacation over another — you can do it all. Combine skiing outside Denver or Salt Lake City with biking in Moab or Grand Junction. If the South Rim is chilly in winter, hike into the Grand Canyon for a springtime paradise. If canyons seem too warm in summer, drive up into the mountains for Icool green escapes. Fall, Winter and Spring are when crowds ease in the Grand Circle’s most popular attractions and prices may ease, as well.

Fall brings a riot of color as portions of the Grand Circle see leaves turn from green to gold and red. Cedar Breaks National Monument, Capitol Reef and Zion in Utah, Grand Junction and the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, Flagstaff, in Arizona all offer dazzling displays. Days are warm and the Grand Circle’s dark skies are crisply studded with a myriad of stars and views of the Milky Way.

When it snows, we celebrate. Our mountains become comforted in deep powder, while our canyons are sometimes blessed with dustings of glitter, most often gone by midday. A true gift for the lucky who catch the beauty. Photography at this time of the year is exceptional. Scenery takes on a new look as bands of snow streak canyon walls and rock spires are capped in white. All National Parks in the Grand Circle are open, except the North Rim of Grand Canyon. Yet, in winter you can golf in St. George, UT or hike in mild temperatures amidst the red rocks of Sedona, AZ Near Flagstaff, AZ

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It doesn’t snow often in the low elevations, so you can plan a relatively chill-free vacation — tour Chaco Canyon, watch balloons rise over Valley of the Gods, jeep through Canyon de Chelly and explore vivid pastel slot canyons near Page. In winter, you can ski or ride at Brian Head Resort or at Snowbowl near Flagstaff.

In Spring, the Grand Circle bursts with wild flowers and the promise of the seasons to come. Rivers rush with melting snows and days are warm and dry. Biking, hiking and touring National Parks are in prime time from April through June. Mountains and monuments awaken from winter, ready for summer’s bounty.

Throughout the year, communities across the Grand Circle host fantastic and unique special events. From the Fire and Ice Festival in Ely, Nevada to Colorado Mountain Winefest in Grand Junction to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM, The Grand Circle is filled with celebrations throughout the year. Visit grandcircle.org to find out about the hundreds of events that add to your Grand Circle experience.

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Zion National Park

Capitol Reef National Park Grand Staircase / Escalante NM

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In the northwest arc of the Grand Circle, a wondrous geologic ladder steps from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to raised tablelands of southwestern Utah. This Grand Staircase — the Chocolate, Vermilion, White, Gray, and Pink Cliffs — spans five different life zones from Sonoran desert to pine and spruce forests. It is a masterpiece of geological and biological diversity, encompassing Zion, Bryce, and Capitol Reef National Parks plus many other attractions.

ithin the Grand Zion National Park. Nature at its most eloquent, Zion is a place Staircase, you of towering sandstone cliffs, narrow slot canyons, spectacular arches, travel between intermittent waterfalls and seeping springs. Originally inhabited totally unique, by both and Paiutes, Zion received most of its contrastingW landscapes. Zion’s main colorful place names from early travelers and settlers. Gentle strolls canyon is a green oasis fed by waterfalls or strenuous hikes allow exploration of the main canyon, with its cascading down 2,000-foot sandstone emerald pools and wooded valley, its upper reaches of sandstone and cliffs. Bryce “Canyon” is actually one face open desert, or nearby Kolob Canyon, where a 14-mile hike (round- of a plateau that is slowly eroding away, trip) will take you to the world’s second largest stone arch. leaving behind amphitheaters with thousands of delicate spires and minarets. Vast oceans Zion is most definitely a photographer’s paradise. Shuttles run into of red-gold rock undulate through both Grand the Park from Springdale from April through November; private Staircase-Escalante National Monument and vehicles allowed off-season. nps.gov/zion; for Park lodging, Capitol Reef. And enormous tracts of lush national 303-297-2757. zionlodge.com forest weave among the Parks offering welcome respite from the heat of lower elevations. Cedar Breaks National Monument A miniature Bryce Canyon, this amphitheater spans some three miles, This is one of the Grand Circle’s finest year-round and drops 2,000 feet off the plateau toward the town of Cedar City. In playgrounds. The National Parks offer hiking trails up icy summer, the high rim of the canyon is dazzling with verdant forests streams and into slot canyons, through arid amphitheaters of and brilliant wildflowers. Hiking trails along and below the rim. crumbling stone and beneath fabulous arches, over geologic Open late May through mid October. nps.gov/cebr folds in rock and across bristlecone-studded forests. National forests and BLM lands offer other ways to explore these lands as Nearby communities: well: mountain biking, backpacking, and ATV activities abound Springdale is within walking distance of Zion’s visitor center; in summer; nordic skiing and snowmobiling in winter. Thin ‘Scenic in fact, shuttles run from town into the Park much of the year. Fun Byways’ snake between these points, twisting up hogbacks, across motels, hotels and B&Bs, some excellent small restaurants, and an alpine meadows, and plunging down into small communities along IMAX film theater make this a comfortable community year-round. the way.

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grandcircle.org 17 St. George, 45 minutes from Zion is a and more from mid resort community and golf haven with over June–late October. 10 courses. It has numerous hotels and scenicsouthernutah.com restaurants, and some wonderful historic architecture. atozion.com Brian Head Resort. Challenging mountain Kanab, also listed on page 9, is a small, biking in summer and southern-Utah town located just north fun skiing in winter, Brian of the Arizona/Utah state line. The area Head also offers some of became known as “Little Hollywood.” the finest views in western Producers and actors proceeded to flood Utah. For serious bikers, the little town for decades to follow in begin at the Brian Head order to satisfy the growing popularity Lookout Tower and bike of Western movies in the . down to Panguitch Lake, a kaneutah.org descent of several thousand feet. Shuttles available from Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. bike shops in both Cedar Red rock walls give way to a wide plain City and Panguitch. of bright reddish-pink sand dunes, dotted cenicsouthernutah.com with wildflowers and wind-swept, low- clinging shrubs. Hundreds of offroading­ Bryce Canyon National trails in the vicinity. 24 miles west of Park. Bryce’s original Kanab, UT. stateparks.utah.gov inhabitants, the Paiutes, believed that the rock figures Cedar City, near Zion, is a bustling here were people turned to college town best known for its Utah stone by angry gods. Delicately Shakespearean Festival. Winner of the colored spires, fins, and mazes “2000 Tony Award for Outstanding haunt our imagination and Regional Theater,” the Festival delights beckon us to explore them more audiences with Shakespeare, Broadway, closely. Hiking and horseback Zion National Park

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Utah Shakespeare Festival Cedar Breaks National Monument Center Stage to Scenic Wonder visitcedarcity.com

grandcircle.org 19 Nearby communities: Tropic and Panguitch are friendly towns with motels, casual restaurants, and campgrounds, situated near Bryce National Park. brycecanyoncountry.com

SCENIC BYWAY 143: UTAH’S PATCHWORK Pkwy. Utah’s newest National Scenic Byway crosses the from Panguitch to Parowan, near Cedar City. Cresting the 4,500-ft (1,372-m) pass at Brian Head, the highway passes through six distinct life zones in 51 miles (82 km). It skirts Panguitch Lake and Cedar Breaks National Monument. By day, there are abundant outdoor recreational opportunities and, by night, some of the darkest star-filled skies found anywhere on earth. 51 mi. / 82.1 km

Kodachrome Basin State Park. Red rock National Scenic Byway 12 chimneys jut upward from the valley floor, perhaps originally springs which eventually filled in. As softer surrounding sandstone eroded, the chimneys remained. trails wind through the Park, both along the rim and down stateparks.utah.gov amongst the towering rock formations called “hoodoos.” A shuttle system (late May through mid-September)­ connects all major Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. natural amphitheaters along the eastern rim; private vehicles Extending across a breathtaking 1.9 million acres, the Monument are allowed off-season. Evening rodeos, flight-seeing, mountain represents a unique combination of archaeological, geological, biking, cross country skiing trails on outskirts of Park. The Lodge paleontological, and biological resources. These strikingly inside the Park will reopen with limited services beginning beautiful and scientifically important lands are divided into three March 6, 2020 – March 26, 2020 and November 3, 2020 – distinct regions: the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and December 27, 2020. Limited Sunset Motel rooms available. the Canyons of the Escalante. BryceCanyonForever.com Nearby communities Red Canyon. Just minutes from Bryce, a new visitor center Escalante and Boulder border the sprawling National showcases the Dixie National Forest. It offers an excellent hiking Monument and Dixie National Forest. They offer excellent and biking trail that loops from the top to the bottom of this Forest access to both. Small and friendly towns, they each have motels, Service canyon. The trail runs along the recently designated fine B&Bs and several restaurants. Torrey and Bicknell, right off Scenic Byway 12, an All American Road. Shuttles, bike rentals Capitol Reef, are slightly more developed, with numerous hotels available nearby. and some fun dining. fs.fed.us/dxnf/recreation/redcanyon, brycecanyoncountry.com Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Monument is a “multi–use area” allowing hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and backpacking/camping. Permits required SCENIC BYWAY 12 for overnight use are available at offices in Cannonville, Escalante, Boulder, Big Water and Kanab. Scenic Byway 12, Utah’s first All ­American Road takes you to the heart ut.blm.gov/monument of the American West. This exceptional 124-mile route negotiates an isolated landscape of canyons, plateaus, and valleys ranging from 4,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level. You’ll encounter archaeological, . Located north of Dixie National cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and scenic qualities while Forest, Fishlake is particularly noted for hunting, fishing, and driving this exhilarating byway. 124 mi. / 199.6 km Panguiych to Torrey. its 250-mile long Paiute ATV trail. Richfield, UT offers easiest access for the trail. fs.fed.us/r4/fishlake

20 Grand Circle Association 2020 grandcircle.org 21 Capitol Reef National Park. The Capitol Reef National Park Waterpocket Fold, an enormous wrinkle in the earth’s crust known as a monocline, forms the 100-mile long backbone of this Park. Early explorers described it as an “impassable reef” of rock, coining the park’s name. The Park’s Visitor Center is located in an oasis enjoyed for millennia — preEuropean rock art and early settlers’ orchards grace the area. Scenic driving, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, and horseback riding allowed in the Park. nps.gov/care | capitolreef.org

NEBO LOOP SCENIC BYWAY From Nephi to Payson, this Scenic Byway have instead breathtaking views of the Wasatch Range and 11,877- foot Mt. Nebo, its tallest mountain. See flat bottomlands, high-alpine conifers, red rock formations, gray sandstone cliffs and salt flats all in the same day. Sights include Devil’s Kitchen, Walker Flat and Mt. Nebo Wilderness. 37 mi. / 59.5 km, Payson to Junction, Highway 132 (near Nephi).

Nearby communities: Bicknell and Torrey, right off Capitol Reef, has numerous hotels and some fun dining. capitolreef.org

Anasazi State Park Museum. One of the largest Ancestral Puebloan communities west of the Colorado River, the site was occupied from A.D. 1050 to 1200. The village remains largely unexcavated, but many artifacts have been uncovered and are on display. Boulder, UT. stateparks.utah.gov

Goblin Valley Sate Park. Whimsical rocks eroded into what appear to be “goblins,” and these and other fanciful creatures greet visitors in this vast sandstone bowl. Near Canyonlands National Park. stateparks.utah.gov

Great Basin National Park. Located west of the Grand Circle in Nevada, the Park offers incredible diversity: 4,000-year old bristlecone pines; 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak; star-studded night skies (astronomy programs May-Sept.); and the spectacular Lehman Caves (year-round tours). 775-234-7331. nps.gov/grba, greatbasinheritage.org

LAS VEGAS STRIP Las Vegas Boulevard is America’s only nighttime Byway and possibly the most concentrated collection of neon and lights in the world. A trip down the Strip is an all-inclusive way to experience the heart of Las Vegas — an adventure that captures 75 years of history, glitz, and roadside charm. 4.5 mi. / 7.2 km in Las Vegas.

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NEVADA 1 LAS VEGAS STRIP UTAH 2 NEBO LOOP SCENIC BYWAY 3 THE ENERGY LOOP: HUNTINGTON / ECCLES CANYONS SCENIC BYWAY 4 FLAMING GORGE-UINTAS SCENIC BYWAY 5 DINOSAUR DIAMOND PREHISTORIC HIGHWAY 6 SCENIC BYWAY 12 7 SCENIC BYWAY 143 Gateway UTAH’S PATCHWORK PARKWAY 8 SCENIC BYWAY Bicknell COLORADO 5 DINOSAUR DIAMOND Boulder PREHISTORIC HIGHWAY 8 TRAIL OF THE ANCIENTS SCENIC BYWAY Ticaboo Escalante 9 GRAND MESA Brian Head Bull Frog SCENIC AND HISTORIC BYWAY 10 SAN JUAN SKYWAY Pagosa Springs Chimney ARIZONA Ignacio Rock NM 11 KAIBAB PLATEAU-NORTH RIM PARKWAY Jacob Lake 12 HISTORIC ROUTE 66 13 RED ROCK SCENIC BYWAY T NEW MEXICO 371 12 HISTORIC ROUTE 66 14 JEMEZ MOUNTAIN TRAIL Grand Canyon 15 EL CAMINO REAL SCENIC BYWAY West 16 TURQUOISE TRAIL NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAY 264 12 MAP LEGEND

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Snow fed rivers drain from the western slope of the Rocky Mountains to carve the canyons of the Colorado River Basin — polished works of geologic art.

xtending from Colorado’s Black Canyon of Each canyon and season offers unique treasures — the Gunnison National Park and Colorado graceful cottonwoods blazing yellow in the autumn National Monument on the Grand Circle’s months, canyon wrens calling in spring. Sitting quietly eastern fringe through Utah’s famed Parks on a smooth sandstone ledge next to a centuries old E— Canyonlands, Arches, — is an site and absorbing the afternoon sun (hot in summer, empire of astonishing cliffs and canyons, mountains welcomingly warm in winter), you’ll understand how and mesas. It is a land that invites us to wander and people felt a thousand years ago: completely at peace. wonder, hike, bike, boat, float, jeep, ride, fly, climb, Bike across slickrock, testing your nerves and muscles, ski, photograph, or just sit and absorb its timeless continuing on for miles because it’s just too beautiful to beauty. turn back. Join a dinosaur dig. Jeep into the cool green mountains of the La Sals or the Abajos, or onto Grand Mesa. Visit a vineyard. Raft the rivers — splash and play under the Grand Circle’s stunning blue skies.

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Snow fed rivers drain from the western slope of the Rocky Mountains to carve the canyons of the Colorado River Basin — polished works of geologic art.

Colorado National Monument. The fs.fed.us/r2/gmug monument is a natural wonder of deep canyons and visitgrandjunction.com/areas/grand-mesa miraculous sandstone rock spires. Rim Rock Drive winds through spectacular scenery and accesses over Nearby Communities: forty miles of uncrowded hiking trails. Grand Junction makes a wonderful central point nps.gov/colm from which to explore these monuments, mesas and visitgrandjunction.com/areas/colorado-national- museums. It’s known as a paleontologist’s playground, monument home to the greatest diversity of prehistoric bones ever recovered. Full of restaurants, accommodations, Grand Mesa National Forest. Grand Mesa is the shops, even vineyards. Dinosaur Journey Museum is largest flat-top mountain in the world, encompassing a wonderful stop for adults and kids alike—robotic over 300 lakes and hundreds of miles of hiking, dinosaurs, bones and skeleton casts, a working lab, a biking and riding trails. In winter, there are ample kids’quarry, and 1-3 day adult digs. opportunities for cross-country skiing. 45 minutes visitgrandjunction.com northeast of Grand Junction.

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Ridgway, also near the Black Canyon 1853 in search of a feasible route across DINOSAUR of the Gunnison, serves as a great base- the Continental Divide for a railroad. DIAMOND camp for exploring the heart of Southwest The present Forest consists of over 1.7 PREHISTORIC Colorado and incredible outdoor million acres of public land and over HIGHWAY recreation. ridgwaycolorado.com 100,000 acres of private land within its boundaries. There are 2 peaks over The Dinosaur Diamond runs through the best land in the world to learn about Black Canyon of the Gunnison 14,000’ and another 20 that are over dinosaurs. Numerous sites are available National Park. One of our newest 13,000’ in elevation. People are also to the public where bones and tracks are national parks was formed slowly by water still finding undiscovered Anasazi ruins still visible in the ground. Many museums and stones scouring down through hard, in the Forest. If you come across ruins, along the way add to the opportunities dark crystalline rock. No other canyon please leave them undisturbed and to see and learn about dinosaurs. 480 in North America combines the narrow report your discovery to the appropriate mi. / 772.5 km Circle – Grand Junction, opening, sheer walls, and startling depths Forest Service personnel. In this area, CO to Moab, UT to Grand Junction, CO. offered by this gorge. Rim drives and hiking we are learning much about our Native trails with scenic views; trails to the bottom American heritage through the study of only for the very experienced hiker. 15 previously unknown and undisturbed GRAND MESA miles east of Montrose, CO, off US 50. sites and artifacts. nps.gov/azru SCENIC AND nps.gov/blca HISTORIC BYWAY Arches National Park More than The small, friendly town of Montrose two thousand natural sandstone arches, This “playground in the sky” climbs is close to the Black Canyon, and has including the world-famous Delicate from the rugged Plateau Canyon floor more than a dozen motels to choose Arch, frame this area’s amazing beauty. In to the cool evergreen mesa forests, from. There’s also an excellent small Ute some areas, faulting has exposed millions 11,000 feet up. Featured are hundreds Museum with information about this of years of geologic history. An 18-mile of sparkling lakes, wildflower meadows indigenous Western Slope tribe. paved loop road introduces visitors to a and forests of shimmering aspen and 970-249-5000. visitmontrose.com pine. Take a side trip to Lands End brilliantly colored landscape littered with Overlook where the Grand Valley unfolds fins, pinnacles, faults and fossils; hiking below. 63.0 miles / 101.4 km. I-70 to Gunnison National Forest was trails wind under arches and around Cedaredge with spur to Lands End. named for Captain John Gunnison, a windows in stone. 5 miles north of Moab man who came through this area in on Hwy 191. nps.gov/arch

30 Grand Circle Association 2020 The largest city between Denver art displays in the country. Three and Salt Lake, Grand Junction is museums, an arts center, and a a mecca for people who define botanical garden all add to the themselves by the amount of time diversity of activities. they spend outdoors. Grand Junction’s temperate climate The Grand Junction area is known makes for warm summers and mild for world-class single-track winters, which creates the perfect mountain bike trails including condition for award-winning Lunch Loops, Kokopelli and 18 vineyards, supplying over 28 Road. Unparalleled hiking in wineries in the area and also the Colorado National Monument, the world-famous Palisade peach. Grand Mesa, and along the Book Cliffs provides uncrowded hiking It’s also home to a rich trails. Enjoy kayaking, rafting, or paleontological history, including stand up paddleboarding with easy the excavation of some of the access to over 40 miles of calm biggest dinosaurs ever discovered. waters on the Colorado River. Today you can visit a working paleontological lab or participate in More than just an outdoor a live dig site. playground, Grand Junction is brimming with culture. Downtown With more than 37 hotels, there is known for farm-to-table is plenty of affordable lodging to restaurants, art galleries and choose from. boutiques. Over 100 sculptures line Main Street, part of the VisitGrandJunction.com award-winning Art on the Corner program, one of the largest outdoor

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Mountains. Rivers. Canyons. Lakes. High Desert. There is no other place in Colorado where you experience the intersection of so many prized ecosystems.

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Canyonlands National Park. Countless canyons, mesas and buttes comprise the three separate districts of this Park — Island in the Sky, the Needles, and the Maze (very difficult access). Each is special. Near Moab, short hiking trails loop through Island in the Sky as raft trips float thousands of feet below to the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. Grand View Point, about 30 miles from Moab, offers a 360 degree panoramic view of the deep canyons below. Off road vehicles and bikes are permitted on the 100-mile White Rim Trail. The Needles District north of offers a very different beauty with remote loop hikes to spectacular red rock gardens. nps.gov/cany

Dead Horse Point State Park. On the same mesa as Canyonlands’ Island in the Sky, 2,000 feet directly above the Colorado River, Dead Horse Point provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands’ sculptured pinnacles and buttes. stateparks.utah.gov Dead horse POint State Park, UT

32 Grand Circle Association 2020 Manti-La Sal National Forest. Home to the La Sal (near Moab) and Abajo (near Monticello) Mountains, this Forest offers outstanding recreation in cooler temperatures. Wonderful scenic drives snake through these two different ranges, offering views of the surrounding desert floor.

Newspaper Rock National Recreation Site. One fabulous wall of Ancestral Puebloan and Ute petroglyphs (art chiseled and pecked into stone) is located on the road into Needles District of Canyonlands.

Nearby Communities: Moab is a vibrant town known for its world class slick rock mountain biking. But there’s more — rafting, boat tours, flight seeing, golf, and glorious, solitary hikes, and one of the best breweries in Utah. Lots of lodging and restaurants, some campgrounds. For the southern entrance to Canyonlands’ Needles District, Monticello is close and is nestled at the foot of the lovely Abajo Mountains. It has a visitor center, motels, & restaurants. In addition, there is a golf course, mountain bike and ski trails and a hands-on learning center.” discovermoab.com utahscanyoncountry.com

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Perhaps the most photographed landscape in America, this valley of monoliths and buttes has been a favorite Hollywood backdrop for 80 years. Still a traditional Navajo homeland, the Biking Near Moab valley is accessible by private vehicle Leave No Trace

PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT. Remember, nothing disintegrates out here, nothing. It’s just too dry. We still find corncobs and plant fibers from clothing worn centuries ago. Whatever you leave behind will decorate this landscape for years to come: orange peels and cigarette butts and toilet paper. Bury human waste. Don’t litter.

RESPECT WATER. Water is life itself here in the desert southwest. When you are delighted to find water, imagine how much more so are the local creatures. Your skin has soaps and lotions that will foul the water — don’t bathe directly in waterholes or clear streams. Don’t use up the available liquid by splashing about carelessly. Camp, wash dishes, and urinate at least 200 feet from any limited water source. And always, always use a water filter if you decide to take a drink.

TREAD LIGHTLY. Stay on official trails or, when that’s impossible, on hard rock surfaces. Soil with dark, crumbly crusts on it is called “cryptobiotic”— it’s actually made up of organisms that bind the soil together, making it resistant to wind and erosion and encouraging other plantlife to take root. Footprints or tire tracks pulverize these delicate crusts, setting back revegetation literally years.

PRESERVE THE PAST. Ancient sites and rock art panels abound in the Circle; many are more than 700 years old. Crumbling walls may collapse if you lean or climb on them; fragile flakes of stone or paint will absorb oils from your fingers and soon discolor or disappear. Corncobs and pottery sherds lying about are all part of the peaceful story of these sites — leave them undisturbed for the next visitor or scientist.

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and guided tours on limited roads. Edge of the Cedars State Park. Bluff, and Blanding. Blanding is the Horseback tours are also available. No The park features exhibits and the largest largest town with several motels and backcountry hiking or biking is allowed. collection on Ancestral Puebloan pottery restaurants. Their visitor center offers Goulding’s, the area’s first trading post, in the area, an authentic much area information. Bluff, though has a fine small museum on early trading Puebloan village with a , and walking small, is charming with historic Mormon days. paths. stateparks.utah.gov/parks/edge-of- homes, lots of outfitters and rafters and a utahscanyoncountry.com the-cedars few trading posts. It has a wide range of navajonationparks.org accommodations from motels to cabins and B&B’s. Located on the San Juan Goosenecks State Park. A stunning TRAIL OF THE River, Mexican Hat has several motels overlook views an “ancestral entrenched ANCIENTS and restaurants. Monticello, sheltered by meander,” deep, looping S-curves carved NATIONAL SCENIC the Abajo Mountains, has several hotels by the San Juan River. 18 miles south of BYWAY – WEST and motels and a full range of dining Bluff, UT off Hwys 191 & 261. options. southeastutah.org Explore the long and intriguing occupation http://parks.state.ut.us/parks/www1/goos. of the Four Corners region by Native htm American peoples. Travel through the fascinating heartland of America while Bears Ears National Monument. crossing the beautiful and diverse Divided into two tracts of SE Utah, landscapes of the . Bears Ears National Monument has On the Western Byway, Monument numerous natural rock formations and Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Four Corners valleys. Abundant rock art, ancestral Monument, Hovenweep, Bears Ears and dwellings ceremonial sites and other Natural Bridges National Monuments assets of cultural significance to Native are highlights on the trail. The Trail of the American peoples are found through the Ancients is a loop route that may be started monument. at any point along its length. On the west, fs.fed.us/visit/bears_ears_national_ you can begin the loop in Cortez, CO, monument Monticello or Blanding UT, or along the way. Total length is 480 mi / 772 km. Natural Bridges National Monument. Unlike arches, bridges are formed when streams cut through canyon walls. Three lovely bridges in one Nearby Communities: canyon, all accessible by short, steep Historic Goulding’s Lodge, hiking trails, are protected here. 36 miles known as a western fort or town setting west of Blanding, UT, off Hwy 95. of many John Wayne movies, is one nps.gov/nabr mile from the rim of Monument Valley. It offers accommodations, a restaurant, Valley of the Gods. A landscape campground, a museum, grocery store, that rivals Monument Valley, but is more fast food, and flightseeing.­ Twenty five accessible for driving, hiking, camping, miles south of the valley is Kayenta, AZ, and biking (managed by BLM). 12 miles on the Navajo Reservation, with several south of Bluff, UT. hotels and small restaurants. North of the valley, in Utah, are Mexican Hat, Monument Valley

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uman history seeps from the pores of this The best-known treasures here are Mesa Verde, Chaco land — generations of nomads, farmers, Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. Mesa Verde first caught builders, warriors, explorers, traders, miners, explorers’ attention because it’s so well preserved: and ranchers have traipsed the Colorado whole towns protected from weather because they were HPlateau and called it home. Nowhere is this more built in high, dry cliff alcoves. Brooms and sandals, evident than in the southeast corner of this Grand Circle grinding stones and dog-hair weavings capture images where remote canyons have nurtured civilizations for of life 800 years ago. Archaeologists thought for years hundreds of years. that Mesa Verde was this society’s nucleus but, as it turns out, that high plateau was merely a satellite of Tens of thousands of people once lived here, building a far more organized, far more powerful community: villages along every creek and near every small, life- Chaco. Apparently the trading and religious center of giving spring. Travel for a day in this part of the Grand the Ancestral Puebloan world, Chaco’s trade spread Circle and you’ll see their traces: small granaries tucked from the Pacific to the Mississippi to Meso America. inconspicuously up under rock outcroppings, circles Over hundreds of years, Chacoans created enormous of sunken stones still noting , places of ceremony. villages and ceremonial structures, as well as precise Remnants of their homes litter sage-covered plains and solstice markers and elaborate irrigation systems. On mesas. But time and water — those same sculptors of the western side of the Chuska Mountains, Canyon the canyons — wreak havoc on ancient walls. One de Chelly was less developed, less populated during of the Grand Circle’s newest national monuments, Puebloan times, but has been occupied since by other Canyons of the Ancients, was recently created to help native peoples. The Navajo still farm and raise sheep in protect some of these fabulous sites. this magical canyon through a unique partnership with the National Park Service.

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Ancestral petroglyphs

Sprider Rock, Canyon de Chelly National Historic Park

Where did the builders of these sandstone by fields tended for centuries. a unique visitors to connect with the wonderful go? It appears that, by 1300, all blend of Catholicism and Pueblo beliefs. artists and galleries on the Hopi mesas in the Ancestral Puebloans of this area Two additional National Monuments are northern Arizona. Visitors are welcome had migrated south to join with other near these villages: El Malpais, with to drive across the Hopi reservation communities of kin — the wonderful volcanic lava flows and cinders using the Arts Trail map as a guide to , the Acoma, Zuni and Hopi and El Morro, which commemorates visit the galleries and contact artists. peoples — possibly forced from this Inscription Rock – centuries of rock art HopiArtsTrail.com area by cooling weather and dwindling and European explorers’ signatures. hopiculturalcenter.com resources. Their traditions live on today nps.gov/elmo though, in the arts and rituals spread Utes were undoubtedly the contemporar- throughout New Mexico and Arizona. Learn more about NATIVE New Mexico ies of the Ancestral Puebloans, though through the New Mexico Tourism their small clan, hunter and gatherer style 65 miles west of Albuquerque is Acoma Department/Indian Tourism Program. left only scant traces of their centuries Pueblo and the Sky City Cultural newmexico.org/native_america/ old habitation of the southwest. After Center. Dating to the 13th century, the Ancestral Puebloans moved away, Acoma Pueblo is the oldest continuously The Hopi live furthest west, isolated on Utes continued to live along the western inhabited settlement in North America and the southern rim of the enormous Black slope of Colorado and in the San Juan the 28th Historic Site designated by the Mesa, the driest place chosen by any River basin. In the mid 1600s, after they National Trust for Historic Preservation. Pueblo people. Able to coax corn and acquired horses from the Spanish, Utes Its’ rich history is on display at the Haak’u beans out of parched earth, ecologists flourished, becoming fearsome warriors, Museum, features exhibits of a wide call them “environmental wizards.” One raiders, and buffalo hunters. But by 1880, array of art and artifacts of the Acoma is not born Hopi, one aspires to become the group now known as Southern Utes and other puebloan tribes of the area. Hopi. Being Hopi is a state of being, of were only 500 people; the Ute Mountain Native American jewelry and the work of grace, peacefulness, and honesty. Their Utes numbered 650. Today both tribes contemporary Pueblo artists who create sacred dances invoke the rains, but also earn revenues from oil and mineral leases, world-renowned pottery are available at pray for peace and happiness for the entire casinos, and tourism. the museum. acomaskycity.org world. Today, visitors are still allowed to officialbestof.com/features/ view some dance ceremonies, but not The Ute MountainTribal Park, newmexico/2013.php. all Should you be lucky enough to attend wrapped around the base of Mesa Verde, one, no photography or recording devices contains worldclass­ archaeological sites Zuni — thought to be the famed city of are allowed. for visitors to tour with Ute guides. gold, Cibola, the Spanish searched for Arts are a part of life for the different utemountaintribalpark.info in 1539 — is a simple town surrounded Pueblos. The Hopi Arts Trail allows

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Of all the tribes, the Navajo dominate the thought-provoking glimpse into America’s Cortez Cultural Center. A forum political and physical landscape. With pre-European past. Self- guided interpretive for arts, education, and Native cultures, more than a quarter million tribal members, trails on the mesa’s surface, ranger-guided the Center offers free Indian Dances and and more than seven million acres of tours of some cliff dwellings, concessions- Cultural Programs, or the outdoor drama reservation land spread across three states, guided tours and lodging. Black Shawl during the summer months. the Diné are a powerful nation. Relative visitmesaverde.com | nps.gov/meve The Center also features exhibits of pre­ newcomers to the southwest — they are mesaverdecountry.com historic and contemporary Native tribes, as believed to have migrated here in the well as rotating art exhibits. 1400s — the Navajo language is similar TRAIL OF THE cortezculturalcenter.org to Canadian-Athabaskan. Masters of ANCIENTS adaptation, the Navajo quickly picked up NATIONAL SCENIC Canyons of the Ancients National agriculture, sheep-herding, and weaving BYWAY – East Monument. Newly designated to protect for profit from traders. Unlike the Pueblos thousands of unexcavated archaeological On the East side, Trail of the Ancients traverse though, most traditional Diné families sites, this Monument still lacks significant a landscape filled with traces of the long choose to live apart from their neighbors. infrastructure. So far, there is just one occupation of the region by ancestral Native Hogans — one roomed earthen structures interpretive site and two hiking trails. Lowry American peoples. The archaeological that originally served as homes — often heartland of the Southwest, the Scenic Byway Pueblo, just north of Cortez, is a self-guided sit next to modern houses, but they’re still travels across stark and beautiful landscapes. tour. Sand Canyon, off McElmo Canyon used and appreciated. Notice how every Explore world-renowned Mesa Verde National Road, has a nice canyon hiking trail that hogan faces east, to greet the dawn. Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park, Four passes several cliff dwellings and Painted Corners Monument, Chaco Canyon, Zuni Hand Pueblo, a backcountry site, has a The traditional arts of the Navajo — sand Pueblo, Bisti Badlands and Aztec Ruins beautiful standing tower and pictographs. painting, basket weaving, silversmithing, National Monument. The Trail of the Ancients For information on how to reach these pottery and rug weaving — have is a loop route that may be started at any hiking trails, visit the Anasazi Heritage experienced a revival in recent years point along its length. On the east you can Center. co.blm.gov/canm and are valued by visitors and collectors. begin the loop in Cortez, CO, Farmington and Today the Nation has its own unified Gallup NM. Total length is 480 mi / 772 km. Durango & Silverton Narrow government and a strong view of the future. Gauge Railroad. In the 1880s a narrow discovernavajo.com Canyon of the Ancients Museum & rail line was strung along the Animas River, Visitor Center. A wonderful, interactive a twisting river gorge, to connect Silverton Mesa Verde National Park. museum and information center introduces and Durango. Authentic coal fired steam Repeatedly cited as one of the world’s top visitors to artifacts and pre-European engines still pull passengers in narrow cultural attractions, Mesa Verde was home ruins. The Center is also the headquarters gauge cars on an incredibly scenic journey. to the Ancestral Puebloans for more than of Canyons of the Ancients National In Durango, CO. 970-247-2733. 700 years. Many of the best-preserved Monument. 10 miles north of Cortez off durangotrain.com dwellings were built high on cliff walls in Hwys 145 & 184. The Heritage Center alcoves, well-protected from the elements. was renamed the Canyons of the Ancients Four Corners Monument. Four states Complete homes and entire villages have Museum and Visitor Center. meet at this Monument, surrounded by the survived with many artifacts amazingly blm.gov/learn/interpretive-centers/CANM- Ute and Navajo Nations. Here you can intact, providing visitors a unique and visitor-center-museum have your photo taken touching four states

40 Grand Circle Association 2020 at one time. 38 miles southwest of Cortez, CO, off Hwy 160.

Hovenweep National Monument. Five beautifully built ancient towers cluster at the heads of spring-fed canyons in this small, undeveloped park. Their use is still unknown – was it for storage? Solstice observation? Defense? Facilities include a Vistor Center and self-guided interpretive and hiking trails. Travel 3 miles south of Cortez, CO. on Hwy 160, then west 39 miles on County Road G (McElmo Canyon Road). 970-562-4282. nps.gov/hove

SAN JUAN SKYWAY Travel the “road to the sky” which offers views of the towering 14,000-foot San Juan Mesa Verde National Park Mountains to rolling hillsides speckled with ancient Indian pueblo ruins. Victorian towns offer both excitement and relaxation. Soak in hot springs, ride the narrow-gauge railroad, and sleep under the stars or in a cozy lodge. This byway can be traveled in a loop. Total distance: 236 miles / 379.8 km.

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The Farmington / Gallup / Four Corners Area are the hubs of Navajo Country in New Mexico that include Red Rock State Park, museums, lodging, restaurants and outdoor recreation. Navajonationparks.org discovernavajo.com Code Talkers Memorial, Window Rock Aztec Ruins National Monument Petroglyph National Monument. Nearby Communities: Chaco Culture National Historic Although traces of Native American Sizeable towns nearest Mesa Verde are Park. Unlike most of today’s well-known, culture can be found throughout the Cortez and Durango, Colorado. Cortez well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites, Monument, it is of course best known (8 miles west of Mesa Verde) makes a Chaco is not comprised of cliff dwellings. for the over 20,000 petroglyphs (images wonderful base for exploring more of the Instead, a broad, shallow canyon cradles pecked or carved into rock) that can area’s archaeology and offers free Indian the spectacular public architecture of be viewed there. Five volcanic cinder dances nightly. Durango (36 miles this ancient urban center, the hub of the cones on the West Mesa of Albuquerque east) offers the historic silver boom-town Puebloan world for religion, trade, and produced the basalt boulders that were feel with the famous Durango & Silverton administration. Hiking only; mountain the rough canvas for these amazing Railroad, and Victorian architecture. Both biking on the one loop road around petroglyphs. The Visitors Center, once a have numerous hotels, restaurants, and the canyon floor. 76 miles south of homestead-era traditional home, is other entertainment. Farmington, off of Hwy 550. the best place to start your visit. mesaverdecountry.com nps.gov/chcu durango.org Aztec Ruins National Turquoise Trail Monument. Nestled on the edge of National Scenic the free-flowing Animas River in Aztec, Byway N.M., this 450-room UNESCO World Linking Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the Heritage site was occupied by ancestral byway is surrounded by a Scenic and Pueblo people from 1100-1300 A.D. The Historic Area encompassing 15,000 largest ceremonial chamber within the Square miles. From the views atop is the only reconstructed Great Crest, travel through the historic mining Kiva in North America. Self-guided towns Golden, Madrid and Cerillo, alive interpretive trail, visitor center, museum, with art, crafts, museums and restaurants. picnic area. Located in northwest New 50 miles / 81 km along Highway 14. Mexico off U.S. Hwy. 550 just 10 minutes south of the Colorado/New Bandelier National Monument. Mexico state line. Bandelier’s human history extends back nps.gov/azru for over 10,000 years when nomadic hunter-gatherers followed migrating Bisti Badlands & De-Na-Zin wildlife across the mesas and canyons. Wilderness Area. This wonderland of Around 1150, Ancestral Pueblo people soft clay and sandstone formations can began to build permanent settlements be reached from state road 371 on here, but by 1550 the Ancestral Pueblo US 64. people had moved from their homes to pueblos along the Rio Grande (Cochiti, & Heritage Park. San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Another large “greathouse,” or small Santo Domingo). Reminders of these past village, believed to have been a times are still evident in the monument. community connected to the people of Chaco Canyon. 8 miles east of JEMEZ MOUNTAIN Farmington, NM on Hwy 64. TRAIL farmingtonnm.org Jemez Mountain Trail takes you through time, past amazing geological formations, Nearby Communities: ancient Indian ruins, and an Indian Sizable towns near these popular pueblo. The area is rich in logging, wilderness areas and Ancestral Puebloan mining and ranching heritage. Sites destinations in northwest New Mexico include Jemez State Monument, Bandelier

42 Grand Circle Association 2020 National Monument, Soda Dam, Cabezon, Battleship Rock, and the Spence and Jemez Mountain Hot Springs. 163 mi. / 262 km Loop Road near Albuquerque, NM.

Canyon de Chelly National Monument. This Monument shelters over 1,600 years of Native American history. Early Ancestral Puebloan basketmaker home sites built high into cliff alcoves grace spectacular red rock canyons where Navajo farmers and sheepherders still live. One hiking trail; jeep and horseback guided tours. Near Chinle, AZ, off Hwy 191. nps.gov/cach

Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site. The trader John Lorenzo Hubbell introduced rug patterns popular on the East Coast (imported from China and Persia) and locals began weaving them to create the distinctive regional style of Ganado. Today, the trading post looks as it did a century ago, stocked with excellent rugs for sale. Weaving demonstrations also done. 36 miles south of Chinle, AZ (Canyon de Chelly) on Hwys 191 & 264. nps.gov/hutr Nearby Communities: The small town of Chinle, and the capital of the Navajo Nation, Window Rock, both in Arizona, have a several motels and restaurants for visitors. Window Rock serves as the seat of government for the Navajo Nation and a base for its’ touring council meetings. The Navajo Nation Museum and the Navajo Nation Code Talkers World War II memorial are located here. Gallup, NM, located on I-40 about 100 miles south of Canyon de Chelly, is a busy trading center for all southwestern arts, particularly silversmithing. It’s estimated that 80% of Navajo and Pueblo jewelry passes through Gallup’s wholesalers. GallupRealTrue.com, discovernavajo.com, navajonationmuseum.org

HISTORIC ROUTE 66 SCENIC BYWAY In its glory days Historic Route 66 was a symbol of freedom and opportunity to travelers across the nation as it stretched across Northern New Mexico and Arizona. History lovers have preserved many of the attractions so unique to the “Mother Road” in places like Albuquerque and Gallup. Relive the glory days of one of America’s most historic byways by visiting the restored quirky restaurants, gas stations, motels and other sites all along the Historic Route 66.

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